Shaving Mugs

Shaving Mugs

Before shaving creams became prevalent during the 1920s, working up a lather involved cake soaps, stashed in porcelain mugs. Barbershops kept a cup on hand for each customer. In fact, this one—a promotional piece issued by Missouri's Koken Barbers' Supply around 1900—was probably given to a barber free of charge. Its estimate today? An impressive $150. Snag plastic combs at flea markets for a buck or two; harder-to-score steel scissors go for $10 or more.

Neck Dusters

Neck Dusters

These Victorian wood-and-horsehair brushes were intended expressly for whisking away itchy hair clippings. You can pick them up at antiques malls for as little as $25, but similar specimens in mint condition—like the dusters pictured above, on a custom rack—carry price tags of around $150 each.